Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
From the day after the procedure rinse gently with lukewarm salt water, do not gargle, several times a day.
The rinse keeps the wound clean without irritating it mechanically.
It does not measurably speed healing; it mainly keeps food out of the wound.
On the day itself do not rinse and do not suck — otherwise the clot comes loose and a very painful dry socket forms.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.